WASTELANDS 荒原 Exhibition

About

Wastelands is a contemporary Chinese art exhibition of installation, painting, sculpture and film presenting the works of eight artists who all have links to China. The exhibition explores the idea of ‘waste’ as a result of consumption through different landscapes and materials. Ranging from the ‘aesthetic debris’ in the work of Cai Yuan’s cardboard paintings installation to Cao Fei’s film ‘Haze and Fog’, a surreal and abject portrait of an excessively self-consuming Beijing in the form of a zombie movie. Featuring established artists such as the hugely significant figure of Ai Weiwei alongside artists with long-standing practices in the UK, it engages in themes around issues of neo-liberal ideologies, consumption, development and economies of culture.

OVADA - 14A Osney Lane - Oxford - OX1 1NJ

Open: Thursdays – Sundays, 12-6pm

Admission Free

The exhibition is produced by the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art (OCCA) and funded by Arts Council England. With special thanks to the University of Salford and CFCCA – New Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art.

www.ovada.org.uk/wastelands

With: Ai Weiwei  |  Cai Yuan  |  Cao Fei  |  HMFF  |  Anthony Key  |  Sun Haili  |  Sun Yi  | Wessieling